Caught on video

SINGAPORE - Two men caught on video fighting at Dhoby Ghaut MRT station have been arrested for affray. The police were alerted to the case on Sunday night (Sept 2) and subsequently arrested the men, aged 36 and 20. A video of the two men engaged in a brawl, around two minutes long, was uploaded onto citizen journalism website Stomp on Monday. The video had reportedly been circulating on WhatsApp before Stomp was alerted to it. The video begins with the two men, one dressed in black and a taller man dressed in blue, throwing punches and pushing each other aggressively at a train platform of Dhoby Ghaut station along the North-East Line. The man in black can be seen with blood smeared on the right side of his face and neck. The two men get into a fighting stance and the man in black drops his backpack. A woman and some MRT staff step in to stop the conflict to no avail. The woman, pointing at the man in black, was heard several times in the video repeatedly saying: "He's drunk! He's … [Read more...] about 2 men arrested for Dhoby Ghaut MRT brawl caught on video

GENEVA: Russia will prosecute perpetrators of torture in its prisons, including guards caught on video beating an inmate that has led to a public outcry, the deputy justice minister told the United Nations human rights watchdog on Thursday.Authorities detained six prison guards on Monday, days after a video circulated online showing at least 10 guards torturing and beating an inmate with truncheons.The Novaya Gazeta newspaper published the 10-minute clip last week and said the incident took place in June 2017 in a prison in the city of Yaroslavl, northeast of Moscow.U.N. experts on the Committee against Torture raised the case of the detainee identified as Yevgeny Makarov on Monday at the start of a two-day regular review of Russia's record.Panel chairman Jens Modvig also called on authorities to provide a "clear signal" to law enforcement personnel and the public that torture is prohibited."I would like to express my conviction that the investigation of this and other similar … [Read more...] about Russia says torture banned, will prosecute guards caught on video

It was the day before their O-level listening comprehension. At about 4pm on Monday, the group of about 10 youths were at the Lorong Halus bridge in Punggol when they saw what they claimed was a damaged ofo bicycle. The group then dared one of the boys to toss it off the bridge. The 16-year-old boy, who cannot be identified, told The New Paper that he was under stress from school and home at the time. He said: "My friends kept chanting and pressuring me to throw the bike into the water." He then threw the bike. The incident was caught on video by one of his friends, who posted it on Instagram. The six-second video was taken down after half an hour, but by then it had been shared on several other social media platforms, with one tweet gaining more than 20,000 views, drawing the ire of netizens. The boy said he regretted his decision and promised not to do it again. He said: "I should have ignored my friends instead of listening to them. "I know it isn't the right thing to do and I … [Read more...] about Teenager caught on video tossing bike off Punggol bridge says sorry

PATTAYA - Two Russians, who were caught on video having sex on a beach in South Pattaya two weeks ago, have left the Kingdom and will be blacklisted, the Pattaya police chief said. But police also will summon the person who shot the video and posted it on Facebook for violating the Computer Crime Act, Pol Colonel Apichai Krobphet, commander of Pattaya Police Station, said on Tuesday. The video clip showed the two tourists having sex on an abandoned water pipe on Yinyom Beach in South Pattaya on March 11 morning. Apichai said police had checked footage from security cameras on the beach behind Cetus Parc Hotel on Pattaya Soi 12. The woman left the country from the U-tapao International Airport at 2pm on March 11 while the man left from Suvarnabhumi Airport at 8.18am on March 13. He said the two have been blacklisted and would be arrested if they returned to the Kingdom. Apichai said police know the person who had posted the clip but they wanted the person to report himself at … [Read more...] about Russians caught on video having sex on Thailand beach blacklisted

Transport company SBS Transit said in response to a Stomp query that it will take stern disciplinary action against a bus captain caught on video assaulting a motorist with a helmet. According to a post on 新山人 新山事's page, the incident happened at Southkey, near the entrance to Permas Jaya in Johor Bahru, Malaysia, on Tuesday (March 20) at 5.25pm. Several videos of the incident were uploaded. The first video shows the bus captain in uniform arguing with at least two men on a van. During the argument, the bus captain who had been riding a motorcycle took off his helmet as he shouted at a man on the front passenger seat of the van. Another man in a white T-shirt approached him and started to take a video. In response, the bus captain raised his helmet and swung it at the man in white. According to an accompanying caption to the post, the bus captain hit the man twice with his helmet. Amidst the scuffle, other passers-by stopped to render … [Read more...] about Bus captain caught on video hitting motorist with helmet in JB will be disciplined: SBS Transit